Embarrassing Quotes - Page 2

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.

I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

It was awkward and embarrassing, but you have to go through things, ... I got through it and I'm happy it's over with and I can move forward and start playing.

You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.